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8 Feb 19
Half of councils in England are likely to incur penalties for failing to meet house-building targets by 2020, the spending watchdog has found.
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8 Feb 19
Ministers have laid the foundations for a new era in council housebuilding and say it is up to authorities to deliver. What plans are afoot, and are councils ready to step up? Neil Merrick...
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7 Feb 19
The number of social rent homes in England has plummeted by 165,697 in just six years, analysis by a trade body has found. ...
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5 Feb 19
Financial instability amongst councils, gender pay gaps and house building numbers are all in this month’s Numbers Game.
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1 Feb 19
Record levels of overcrowding in the social housing sector mean that about 300,000 households are living in homes with insufficient space.
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31 Jan 19
The number of people sleeping rough on England’s streets has soared by 165% since 2010, government figures have shown.
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24 Jan 19
A group of seven benefit assessors from councils in London have been convicted of committing housing benefit fraud worth £1m across three councils.
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21 Jan 19
London councils are spending more than £22m each year renting back homes sold under right to buy, research has found.
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15 Jan 19
More than 50 councils will benefit from a £2.4m pot to crack down on rogue landlords, housing minister Heather Wheeler has announced.
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11 Jan 19
Former servicemen and women suffering from mental illnesses, such as post traumatic stress disorder, will be prioritised for social housing, under new proposals announced by the government.
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8 Jan 19
Up to 3.1 million new social homes must be built over the next 20 years to solve the housing crisis in England, an independent commission has found.
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4 Jan 19
The number of landlords prosecuted by London boroughs for providing substandard accommodation has fallen sharply over the last three years, research has shown.
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2 Jan 19
London boroughs will receive a £38m boost to provide accommodation for families facing homelessness, the government has announced.
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21 Dec 18
The total number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales has shot up by almost a quarter over the last five years, official data has shown.
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19 Dec 18
Local authorities may withdraw from providing asylum accommodation because they take on a “disproportionate share” of responsibilities with little support, MPs have warned.
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18 Dec 18
Housing accountants must be careful about how they charge rents next year - a leap year - or they could find they lose out on income or break the rules, says the chair of CIPFA’s housing panel Ken...
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10 Dec 18
Councils will not be able to build the homes needed unless we also address how we train and expands the construction industry workforce, argues think-tank Localis’ Bethanie Roughley.
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10 Dec 18
Councils will be expected to publish official plans to tackle rough sleeping and homelessness by winter 2019, the government has announced.
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30 Nov 18
Councils are failing to use their power to crack down on ‘rogue landlords’, a membership organisation has found.
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28 Nov 18
Social housing sales outstripped the creation of new units in England by a factor of three to one last year, government figures revealed.
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16 Nov 18
A specialist housing court would speed up access to justice for landlords and tenant locked in disputes, the communities secretary has said.
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13 Nov 18
Council tenants claiming universal credit owe on average more than two-and-a-half times the rent arrears of claimants on the previous housing benefit system.
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13 Nov 18
Help offered by councils to young homeless people is ineffective half the time because of inadequate funding, analysis by the Centrepoint charity has revealed.
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7 Nov 18
A PF snapshot survey has revealed 93% of councils across England are planning to borrow more against their housing revenue account now the cap has been lifted.
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29 Oct 18
Councils could generate up to £320bn for the wider economy in England and Wales over the next 50 years if they were given the investment in the Budget today for a “new generation” of social...
8 Feb 19Half of councils in England are likely to incur penalties for failing to meet house-building targets by 2020, the spending watchdog has found.
8 Feb 19Ministers have laid the foundations for a new era in council housebuilding and say it is up to authorities to deliver. What plans are afoot, and are councils ready to step up? Neil Merrick...
7 Feb 19The number of social rent homes in England has plummeted by 165,697 in just six years, analysis by a trade body has found. ...
5 Feb 19Financial instability amongst councils, gender pay gaps and house building numbers are all in this month’s Numbers Game.
1 Feb 19Record levels of overcrowding in the social housing sector mean that about 300,000 households are living in homes with insufficient space.
31 Jan 19The number of people sleeping rough on England’s streets has soared by 165% since 2010, government figures have shown.
24 Jan 19A group of seven benefit assessors from councils in London have been convicted of committing housing benefit fraud worth £1m across three councils.
21 Jan 19London councils are spending more than £22m each year renting back homes sold under right to buy, research has found.
15 Jan 19More than 50 councils will benefit from a £2.4m pot to crack down on rogue landlords, housing minister Heather Wheeler has announced.
11 Jan 19Former servicemen and women suffering from mental illnesses, such as post traumatic stress disorder, will be prioritised for social housing, under new proposals announced by the government.
8 Jan 19Up to 3.1 million new social homes must be built over the next 20 years to solve the housing crisis in England, an independent commission has found.
4 Jan 19The number of landlords prosecuted by London boroughs for providing substandard accommodation has fallen sharply over the last three years, research has shown.
2 Jan 19London boroughs will receive a £38m boost to provide accommodation for families facing homelessness, the government has announced.
21 Dec 18The total number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales has shot up by almost a quarter over the last five years, official data has shown.
19 Dec 18Local authorities may withdraw from providing asylum accommodation because they take on a “disproportionate share” of responsibilities with little support, MPs have warned.
18 Dec 18Housing accountants must be careful about how they charge rents next year - a leap year - or they could find they lose out on income or break the rules, says the chair of CIPFA’s housing panel Ken...
28 Nov 18Social housing sales outstripped the creation of new units in England by a factor of three to one last year, government figures revealed.
16 Nov 18A specialist housing court would speed up access to justice for landlords and tenant locked in disputes, the communities secretary has said.
13 Nov 18Council tenants claiming universal credit owe on average more than two-and-a-half times the rent arrears of claimants on the previous housing benefit system.
